Victor, we need to talk.
And I'll be straight with you.
I've got some concerns about how you're running this place.
♪
If there's one thing I know from my days as a cop,
you're only as good as your partner.
♪
I think you deserve a partner
to help remind you which way is up.
[Screaming] No! No!
No! Please, please.
I didn't do anything.
We found a walkie in your mattress.
But that doesn't mean -- [Screaming]
[Body thuds]
♪
You built this place using your instincts.
[Grunting]
[Screaming]
[Body thuds]
[Walkers growling]
Well, I've got a few of my own.
I'm willing to share them
if you're willing to listen.
Well?
It's never gonna work, John.
Why not?
Because the only voice Victor Strand listens to is his own.
And he has a yes-man like Howard who won't question him.
That's exactly why he likes him.
Well, what he likes and what he needs
are two different things.
What does that mean, John?
Things are starting to go sideways here.
He's paranoid.
Every since Morgan poisoned him, he's got it in his head
that there's some kind of resistance inside the Tower.
That's why he's cracking down on walkies.
Charlie: June?
I'll be right in.
Her skin, are those --?
It's radiation burns.
How's she doing?
Nothing can be done?
Not with her level of exposure.
All I can do is keep her comfortable
for whatever time she has left.
I should go, John.
What happened to Charlie
doesn't have to happen to anyone else.
I can get through to Strand.
I just need the right opportunity.
You think you can change Victor?
What makes you think Victor won't change you? That's not gonna happen.
That's exactly what happened to your son.
He was trying to beat Ginny at her own game,
and it destroyed him.
Don't make that same mistake.
[Knock on door]
Anything in here?
It's clean.
We found another walkie.
Where?
Who had one?
[Chuckles] Howard.
♪
What?
I told you I needed the right opportunity
to get to Strand.
I think I just found it.
♪
Come in.
♪
What can I do for you, John?
I'll be straight with you, Victor.
I've got some concerns about how you're running this place.
♪
No! No, wait!
It wasn't mine, I swear!
And yet it was found in your room!
Victor, you know me! Do I?
I've been by your side since the beginning.
Why would I throw that all away?
Your family, your son.
Perhaps you've joined the chorus of dissenters from within.
No, this place is everything to me.
You know the rules, Howard.
I didn't do this!
I need people I can trust, now more than ever.
You no longer fit that description, old friend.
Wait, no! Victor, please!
Someone planted the walkie so you'd doubt me.
♪
[Groans]
It worked.
Regardless of how it got there,
I can't believe a word you say until I have proof.
♪
And you're gonna get it for me.
[Telephone rings]
Answer it.
♪
Yeah?
When?
Are you sure?
♪
We got a problem.
♪
Strand: What do you mean, she's missing?
Infants don't just vanish into thin air.
She wasn't in her crib when I came to check on her.
I'll find her.
Victor, please, let me do this.
I told you, I don't trust you.
Then let me show you you still can.
Put whatever rangers you want on me,
make sure I'm not hiding anything.
[Rain pattering on windows]
Strand: Retrieve her by sunrise
or I'll finish what we started on the roof.
I will find her.
[Thunder rumbles]
John, a word.
I'd like for you to find that baby.
But you just told Howard --Howard may be stalling.
As such, I'd rather hedge my bets.
You're betting on me?
I've seen the Dorie spirit in action.
I once saw your son build a raft from a broke-down truck
just to get back to June.
He cared about the right things.
As do you.
Which is, I assume,
why you came to me and spoke of your desire
to recalibrate things here.
Too many people are getting hurt
that don't need to.
This Tower is bigger than the both of us.
It is my future.
It is the way I'll be remembered,
my legacy.
That may well be,
but take it from me, Victor --
legacy can slip away if you're not careful.
How so?
Well, let's just say I know what it's like
to do the wrong thing for the right reason.
It doesn't end well.
♪
I'm willing to listen.
But first, I need to know that you can deliver.
Succeeding where Howard fails
will do wonders for your prospects here.
[Thunder rumbles]
Good luck, John.
♪
I don't know anything.
You're Mo's nanny.
She's your responsibility.
John, what is this?
If I knew where she was, I'd tell you.
I didn't take her. You have to let me help.
We need to find her.
You think I can keep a baby secret?
You think I want that kind of heat?
The baby went missing shortly after you showed up here.
Of course I'd be the first person he'd suspect.
Why would I put her in danger like that?
Because you don't want her to grow up here.
Because you're angry about what happened with Ali.
Aren't you?
That's not what this is about.
Then what is this about?
Making sure that baby is safe.
[Chuckles]
Something that will never happen here.
Do you know something, June?
Do you know where Mo is?
[Inhales deeply]
We both want the same things, John.
And the only way that is going to happen...
...is if we take out Strand.
And what does that have to do with Mo?
Morgan and the others are not gonna make their move
as long as the baby is in this Tower.
And Strand knows that.
He loses her,
he loses all his leverage.
You're gonna sneak her out.
I didn't say that.
Strand was right.
The resistance is real, and you're part of it.
The less you know, the better.
Don't give me that.
Talk to me, June.
Maybe I can help.
You really want to help?
Keep Howard distracted.
I'll do the rest.
He's not part of this?
The walkie in his room?
That wasn't me.
You'd tell me if it was?
I have to go, John.
♪
Don't touch that.
[Thunder rumbles]
Quite the collection you've got here, Howard.
Look, I don't got time for this.
I have to find that baby.
Yeah, so do I.
Victor asked me to look, too.
[Scoffs]
He didn't mention that to me.
Can you blame him
after that walkie turned up in here?
It wasn't mine!
Whoever put it here,
they are getting exactly what they want.
Oh, I believe you.
But you understand why I also have to question you,
just like I would anybody else.
[Rain pattering on windows]
Drink?
Ah, I don't touch the stuff anymore.
Suit yourself.
So what is it you want to know?
What I heard up on the roof --
There's a great deal
I don't know about you, Howard.
Like what?
Well, for starters,
you never struck me as a family man.
Why not?
Oh, let's just call it
a general lack of compassion and restraint.
Mm.
And this coming from a man who abandoned his own son.
We're not talking about me right now.
Strand mentioned a wife, a son.
That them?
Where are they?
I don't know.
Get split up after the bomb?
My wife left me
before the world did what it did the first time.
She took our son with her.
Why?
You ever hear of the Travis Letter?
[Thunder rumbles]
William Barrett Travis, 1836.
On the second day of the siege of the Alamo,
he writes a letter asking for reinforcements.
He signs it "victory or death."
What's that got to do with your family?
The Travis Letter is one of the most famous documents
in the history of Texas.
What people didn't know was that there was more to it,
an addendum that I personally discovered.
It made me the toast of the historical community.
I traveled all over, giving lectures,
months and months away from Matin and his mom.
Sounds like quite the achievement.
I forged it.
Suddenly, all those papers that had been praising me
were smearing my name.
One day, I come home,
my wife's at the door, bags packed.
All over the letter?
She said I was more concerned with making history
than I was with...
making a life for her and my son.
♪
But this place...
I have made history here.
My wife and boy are out there somewhere,
and if they find it,
they'll see that this history can be their life.
♪
So what you call a lack of compassion and restraint,
I call building a legacy.
[Knock on door]
What?
[Door opens]
We've covered a five-mile radius.
The baby is not out there.
Maybe you didn't - search hard enough. - The storm's getting bad, Howard.
Then we'll keep searching inside.
We've already - combed the place. - Then comb again.
♪
Are we done here?
♪
Those people you've thrown off the roof.
How do they fit into that legacy?
[Thunder rumbles]
Look, I'm not proud of everything I've done here,
but if it all leads to my family finding this place,
then it will have been worth it.
And if they don't find it?
I don't like to think about that
because then that would mean everything I've done...
has been for nothing.
♪
[Walkers growling]
June.
John.
- How did you know? - Your boots.
The ground down here gets muddy when it rains.
[Mo crying]
♪
How'd you hide her?
Does it matter?
♪
What's this?
For protection, in case I ran into trouble with the moat.
You actually think that would have protected you?
It's worked before.
That woman, the wrestler?
You think you could do the same.
Well, hopefully, I won't have to,
but if that's what it takes.
[Growling continues]
The tunnel's flooding.
That's why this needs to happen now.
It's not safe.
Morgan is posted up about a half a mile away.
He's ready to take her as soon as we get her out.
June!
John, I can't!
I need help with this gate!
I'm coming!
♪
John, hurry!
♪
[Mo crying]
♪
We just need to get to the elevator.
What are you talking about?
I'm sorry, June, but I can't let you leave with her.
I'm gonna cement my legacy,
and you're gonna help me.
♪
[Walkers growling]
Dorie Sr.: We have to get moving before more come washing in.
My gun's over there, by the tunnel.
If I can get to it, we can clear a path to the elevator.
I thought you came down here to help me.
♪
I came to help her.
Why are you doing this?
♪ Climb up on my knee, Sonny Boy ♪
What's that?
It's just a song John used to like.
Shh.
[Mo crying]
You want to do for her what you couldn't do for him.
I lost a child, too, John.
I get it.
We need to give Mo her best chance.
She has it here, now, with Victor,
which is why I have to get her up there before Howard does.
John, have you been drinking again?
Why the hell would you ask me that?
Because you're not making any sense.
Strand is not - going to listen to you. - He will.
He has to. Why?
Because I set this all in motion!
What are you talking about?
The walkie.
I planted it in Howard's room.
I knew it was the only way I was gonna get Strand
to listen to me over Howard.
♪
- You're doing it again. - What?
The same thing you did when you planted that purse
to make sure that Teddy went to jail.
John, it destroyed your life.
It destroyed you.
Please don't make that same mistake twice.
This is different. How?
Because the last time I did the wrong thing
for the right reason, I abandoned my son.
I won't do that to her.
Won't have what happened to John,
what's happening to Charlie...
won't happen to her.
I'll make this place
the world I should have made for my boy.
You can still do that.
We can change things here,
but not while Strand is in charge.
What you want -- I can't risk it.
Why not?
You can't answer me because you know I'm right.
[Walkers growling]
We've got to move.
I'm gonna go for the gun.
You guard her with your life.
What are you gonna do?
Get through them, same way Mickey did.
Go!
John!
We're not gonna make it.
The tunnel!
Take her before more come! I can't!
You have to, John!
You want to secure your legacy,
you want to help Mo?
This is how.
Go!
John, go!
[Grunts]
♪
Get out of here! Take the baby!
♪
I only have one left.
You don't need it. The tunnel.
I'm not leaving.
♪
We gotta get back.
♪
You had a way out!
Still do.
Call them. Who?
Whoever helped you plan this little escape.
Get them down here to help us.
If they get caught, Strand will kill them.
Call them!
Why don't you want her to leave? What are you so afraid of?
Because she'll die outside these walls.
Not if we're careful.
That won't matter. Why not?
Because it didn't for Charlie.
Because it didn't - for me. - I don't understand.
♪
I don't have much time, June.
♪
Grace...
I need some help.
♪
[Walkers growling]
Grace should have been here by now.
Why didn't you tell me sooner?
Would it have made any difference?
How did it happen?
Bringing Charlie back from that building.
I must have got exposed to the same thing she did.
I was careful.
I was quick.
It still got me.
Like it or not,
this is the only place she'll be safe.
I don't have much time left.
You don't know that.
I thought John was gonna be my legacy, and now --
I can't lose another child.
I can't have that be
the last thing I do in this life.
You and Grace, you'll be able to keep her safe in here.
You'll be able to control Strand.
[Gunshots]
♪
Victor.
Caught Grace in the elevator
on the way down here.
She wouldn't say why.
Seems to me we've identified the resistance.
It's exactly who we thought.
It's not what it looks like.
Oh, I'm sure.
[Mo cooing]
[Laughs]
Hmm.
♪
Told you I'd find her.
You didn't find her.
He did.
♪
I got you.
♪
What we're building here
is no less than a civilization,
and no civilization can stand
without a unified people.
I've been fighting by your side
since the beginning, Victor.
And you, John?
Do you believe in this place?
I believe in what it can be.
I believe it's the best way for that child to survive.
He's lying to you.
He was trying to help her escape.
Shut up.
You said you believed in this place.
Show me.
How?
Push him over the edge.
What? You heard me.
We had a deal, Victor.
I said I'd spare you if you found the baby.
- You didn't. - After everything I've done!
The moment we found that walkie,
any faith I had in you eroded.
It wasn't mine!
He's right.
He doesn't deserve this, Victor.
Why is that?
Because I planted that walkie.
You see, Victor?
[Thunder rumbles]
Wait.
You framed Howard in order to gain audience with me?
[Laughs]
Wow.
Oh. [Laughs]
I underestimated you, John.
You don't do something like that unless you're invested.
Come on! You can't be serious?
I'm still gonna need you to do
that other thing I asked.
I won't do that.
You will do it, unless you want me to bring June up here.
No. Or Grace.
John, no, my family.
I'm sorry, but you did the same
to others for far less.
Please! No, John! Wait, no!
John, no!
[Screaming]
♪
Strand: I wouldn't worry about him too much.
His family was never gonna find this place.
- Why not? - Because they're dead.
Our scouts found them months ago.
They'd been turned for a long time, so it seems.
You knew his wife and son were dead and you said nothing?
Why would I?
It's what drove him to help me
build this place to what it's become.
Everyone needs something to drive them, John.
His apartment is all yours.
You can move in immediately.
Consider it a signing bonus.
What is it that you said?
You're only as good as your partner.
Well, here's to a great partnership, my friend.
[Thunder rumbles]
♪
[Coughing]
♪
[Sighs]
♪
[Groans]
♪
[Door opens]
♪
I thought you were off the sauce.
I was.
Well, far be it from me to judge.
Pour me one, would you?
Come on, baby.
[Cooing]
[Bottle thuds]
To our future.
Feel free to junk all this stuff.
Howard certainly has no use for them anymore.
[Classical music plays]
Hm.
♪
[Volume increases]
♪
Why so loud?
So we're not overheard.
I don't want what happened today to happen ever again.
♪
Things need to change.
♪
Are you ready to listen to those ideas I mentioned?
I have some ideas of my own.
♪
I know that Grace was in on what happened today,
as was June.
I'm going to remand Mo
to my sole custody permanently.
How exactly does that work?
Mo will be raised in the penthouse by me,
without any outside interference.
You can't keep her away from her mother.
Her mother is dead.
Grace is a stand-in.
♪
So how do I fit into all this?
You do whatever it is you need to do
to ensure that no one takes that baby.
[Mo cooing]
♪
That baby is never going to give you what you want.
♪
And what is that?
To love you.
To look up to you.
And the more you want it, the more you fight for it,
the more you'll end up driving her away.
♪
And remind me,
what happened to your son, John?
Why do you think I'm trying to get through to you here?
♪
If you really want her to love you,
then let me help you change how you do things here.
♪
When I want your counsel, I'll ask.
♪
You were never going to listen to what I had to say, were you?
As I told you before,
everyone needs something to drive them, John.
What you did today
will echo long into the future.
It will outlive you.
It will be your legacy.
♪
No, it won't.
This place isn't my legacy.
She is.
♪
Morgan, do you copy?
Morgan: Hey, Mr. Dorie. That you?
Are you still close by?
Just beyond the wall, why?
Stay where you are.[Mo crying]
♪
I'm bringing her to you.
♪
[Walkers growling]
♪
June: You don't have to do this, John.
I can do it. I can take her.
I can do this.
I want to do this.
Should we do - the thing? - What thing?
You know, pull in a skinbag and gut him up,
spread the nasty to throw them off the scent.
We don't have time,
and it wouldn't be safe for Mo.
I got this.
You got some brass cojones, my friend.
It's not about me.
[Babbling]
Be brave, my little girl, okay?
Be brave.[Crying]
It's okay.
Be brave.
♪
You don't stop 'til you get to Morgan, okay?
♪
A lot of things I got wrong in this life.
This won't be one of them.
June: You need to go, John.
♪
It's never too late.
Thanks for helping me remember that, June.
♪
Oh, wait.
She likes it when I sing to her.
It soothes her.
John was the same way.
♪
What'd you sing to him?
♪
Wes: Victor.
Hey, Victor.
Hey.
Where is he?
Where's the baby? [Sighs]
Take the edge off.
[Groans]
The rangers are combing the Tower.
They'll find her.
The tunnel's flooded.
There's no other way out.
[Sighs]
There's one.
♪
[Walkers growling]
♪
Dorie Sr.: ♪ Climb up on my knee, Sonny Boy♪
♪
Grace: ♪ Oh, you're only three, Sonny Boy♪
♪ You've no way of knowing♪
♪ There's no way of showing♪
♪ What you mean to me, Sonny Boy♪
Victor.
♪
What do you want to do?
You know, I thought I found a new partner.
He said he wanted to make this place better.
He disappointed me.
[Scoffs] That's what people do.
You still looking?
For what?
A partner.
♪
There's an old antennae in storage.
Bring it to me.
Antennae?
♪
Grace: ♪ When there are gray skies ♪
Dorie Sr.: ♪ I don't mind the gray skies ♪
♪ You make them blue, Sonny Boy ♪
[Walkers growling]
♪ Friends may forsake me ♪
♪ Let them all forsake me ♪
♪ I still have you, Sonny Boy ♪
♪
[Door opens]
♪
♪ You're sent from heaven ♪
♪ And I know your worth ♪
♪ You made a heaven
♪ For me here on Earth ♪
♪
Mr. Dorie.
♪
I got you. I got you.
Hey, you're good.
You're good.
♪
We need to move. I can't.
Why not?
What is --
Oh, my God.
[Mo crying]
♪
I'll buy you some time.
I'm sorry.
You take care of her, Morgan!
I will.
And thanks, John.
Dorie Sr.: ♪ When I'm old and gray, dear ♪
Grace: ♪ Promise you won't stray, dear ♪
♪ For I love you so, Sonny Boy ♪
♪
Is it ready?
It's done.
Give me that walkie.
♪
You may have won the battle today, Morgan,
but the war is just beginning.
I have people here that you care about.
June, Grace,
and if you take a step into this place,
I will kill them.
♪
As for the rest of you,
you know who you are.
The offer to join me still stands.
I need good people here
to help me secure the future of this place.
♪
If you're listening...
you know where to find me.
♪
Dorie Sr.: ♪ When I'm old and gray, dear ♪
Grace: ♪ Promise you won't stray, dear ♪
♪ For I love you so, Sonny Boy ♪
♪